Oct. 30, 2013 Tillamook, OR/Cape Meares State Park
They are predicting rain tonight, so we journeyed over to
the coast and did the Three Capes Loop Drive.
Cape Meares State Park was most interesting and beautiful. It has the Cape Meares Lighthouse, which is
only 38 feet high, and it sits high atop a tall 200 foot headland that faces
the ocean. It was commissioned in 1890
and decommissioned in 1963. It is the
shortest lighthouse in Oregon. From Cape
Meares State Park, you can also see the Three Arches Rocks located just
offshore. The Three Arch Rocks National
Wildlife Refuge was the first NWR west of the Mississippi, and it is home to
the largest breeding colony of tufted puffins along the coast. The Octopus
Tree, is also located in this state park, and is most unusual, in that it is 46’
in circumference with no central trunk.
The limbs extend horizontally from the base as much as 16’ before they
turn upward. It is 105’ tall and
estimated to be 250 to 300 years old. We
loaded some caches and I’ll post a picture at one cache site called, The Great
Divide’. This is where the ocean and the
bay are divided by a narrow strip of land and it provided us with a great view from where
the cache was located. We found 18
caches today. We had another banner day!
Three Arches Rocks NWR, a man and his dog
Welcome to Cape Meares State Park OR
Lighthouse at Cape Meares State Park
Octopus Tree at Cape Meares SP
The Great Divide
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